Canadian Summer Competitions, 2011, General

Within the next two weeks entries should be posted for several summer competitions in Canada.

If I understand the Quebec website correctly, the closing date for the Quebec Summer competition (August 11-14) is June 21st. Therefore this link, updated today, may give the final entry list for the competition.

Other competitions in July and August, along with entry date cutoffs, are the following:

Thanks for compiling the list, geoskate. There's some relatively tough competition in the ladies events in Quebec. Does anyone have any updates on Myriane Samson? Is she still recovering from the knee injury that kept her out of worlds? She hasn't received a GP assignment, nor is she on the Quebec list. Also, I'm impressed by the high number of entries -although this is not unusual for this comp- in the novice and pre-novice categories: 97 Novice ladies in the short, and 197 pre-novice ladies (I think).

There aren't as many junior dance teams as last year, due to the conflict with Lake Placid, but with 13 teams it is still a good competition. Several are new teams making their competitive debut. Interestingly, Sarah Aghai now is skating for Finland with Jussiville Partanen. Other new teams are Kylie Knight/Allan Stowe, Nicole Kuzmich/Jordan Hockley and Rachel Kirkland/Christopher Lettner. There's a contingent of strong BC novice teams that are making their junior debut here, I think (Bruser/Lum, Dalmer/Firus and Edwards/Pang). It will be interesting to see how they fit into the mix.

There are 8 senior teams, which should make for an interesting competition (including Milena Todaro/Arseny Markov!!!). Ralph/Hill (4th at Canadians) are entered here in the free dance only, as well as Harvey/Gagnon (5th at Canadians). The novice dance competition, with 11 teams, is also of a very respectable size.

The new senior pair team of Julianna Seguin/Andrew Evans will be skating here. I believe this will be their debut performance.

Interesting. Some of the BC Teams at Senior are also listed for Lake Placid, based on the practise schedule for Lake Placid. (Harvey/Gagnon and VanAs/Shindle, for example.) So these teams will compete in Ottawa or Lake Placid? Don't think both are possible? Also, why would Lake Placid and Minto be planned the same weekend? Many teams would compete in both in past years.